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Re: BashHere.reg Explorer add-on and long filenames
- From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn at spk dot agilent dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:31:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: BashHere.reg Explorer add-on and long filenames
- References: <1161206400.10364.24.camel@mercury.sprymusic>
On 2006-10-18, Jean-Claude Gervais <jc.gervais@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> I found and adapted a Windows registry hack to permit opening Bash
> prompts in any folder in Explorer by right-clicking on the folder and
> selecting the "Open with Cygwin Shell (bash)" menu entry.
>
> It works fine, but for some strange reason, whenever a folder is
> selected that has a long-name (ie. not 8.3 DOS standard), the bash
> prompt displays the short filename version of the path.
>
> Is there a way to get it to display the long version?
>
> Here is the .REG file in case anyone else would like to give this a try.
>
> TIA, J
>
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>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Custom_OpenWithCygwinShell]
> @="Open with Cygwin Shell (bash)"
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Custom_OpenWithCygwinShell\command]
>
> @="c:/cygwin/bin/bash --login -c \"cd '%1'; exec bash --noprofile --norc
> -i\""
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Custom_OpenWithCygwinShell]
>
> @="Open with Cygwin Shell (bash)"
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Custom_OpenWithCygwinShell\command]
>
> @="c:/cygwin/bin/bash --login -c \"cd '%1'; exec bash --noprofile --norc
> -i\""
>
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You can use 'cygpath' to translate among the various forms of a path
name. In this case, the idea would be to replace
cd '%1'
by something like
cd "`cygpath -u '%1'`"
I still have a hard time getting the quoting right in these
situations, though, so you may have to play with that a bit. Some
sort of quoting surrounding the argument to 'cd' is necessary so
that paths containing spaces will appear to 'cd' as a single
argument.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@spk.agilent.com | Wireless Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
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